Consortium News: 12-09-2024,
Caitlin Johnstone says it’s strange to spend her life criticizing the depravity of the empire. It’s a job that shouldn’t exist, like working as a vampire hunter.
The Pentagon. (Joe Lauria)
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
Listen to Tim Foley reading this article.
I shouldn’t be able to do this for a living. Criticizing the warmongering of a single power structure shouldn’t be anyone’s full-time job. No government should be murdering people so consistently and reliably that people can plan their whole lives around it.
Yet here we are. Not only are people like me able to focus on commentary about the mass military violence of the U.S. and its satellite states as a full-time gig, but we usually find there’s too much to talk about from day to day.
Currently we are getting reports that at least 40 people were killed in an IDF massacre on a tented encampment in southern Gaza near Khan Younis, which Israel had previously designated as a humanitarian safe zone. There are videos of families digging frantically in the sand trying to rescue loved ones who were buried by the blast, which was reportedly so forceful that bodies are being found some thirty feet down.
Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp has taken to typing up daily updates on the documented Israeli massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,